ASTM F2755-14
(Specification)Standard Safety Specification for Cautionary Labeling of Inflatable Air Mattresses
Standard Safety Specification for Cautionary Labeling of Inflatable Air Mattresses
SCOPE
1.1 This safety specification covers safety requirements aimed at providing cautionary labeling information for safer use of inflatable air mattresses (also known as “air beds,” collectively referred to herein as “inflatable air mattresses”). The intent of this safety specification is to reduce child (infant) injuries and fatalities caused by suffocation on inflatable air mattresses.
1.2 This safety specification covers all size inflatable air mattresses—including but not limited to full, queen, king, and twin sizes.
1.3 This safety specification does not cover inflatable air mattresses designed specifically for use in Durable Infant Products.
1.4 This safety specification is intended to reduce entrapment hazards to children and risk of suffocation to infants up to and including age 15 months.
1.5 This safety specification includes inflatable air mattresses intended for recreational, camping, and other indoor and outdoor uses.
1.6 This standard does not purport to address all of the safety concerns, if any, associated with its use. It is the responsibility of the user of this standard to establish appropriate safety and health practices and determine the applicability of regulatory limitations prior to use.
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Designation:F2755 −14
Standard Safety Specification for
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Cautionary Labeling of Inflatable Air Mattresses
This standard is issued under the fixed designation F2755; the number immediately following the designation indicates the year of
original adoption or, in the case of revision, the year of last revision. A number in parentheses indicates the year of last reapproval. A
superscript epsilon (´) indicates an editorial change since the last revision or reapproval.
INTRODUCTION
Since 2002 (until Jan. 1, 2008), the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) has received
reports of 16 tragic deaths, mostly infants younger than 8 months of age, who were placed to sleep
on air mattresses. Eleven suffocated in a facedown position on an air mattress, and five died as a result
of suffocation after falling into gaps between the mattress and bed frame or mattress and adjacent
furniture or wall.
1. Scope 2. Referenced Documents
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2.1 ANSI Standards:
1.1 This safety specification covers safety requirements
aimed at providing cautionary labeling information for safer ANSI Z535.4 Standard for Product Safety Signs and Labels
use of inflatable air mattresses (also known as “air beds,” ANSI Z535.6 Product Safety Information in Product
collectively referred to herein as “inflatable air mattresses”). Manuals, Instructions, and Other Collateral Materials
The intent of this safety specification is to reduce child (infant)
3. Safety Requirements
injuries and fatalities caused by suffocation on inflatable air
mattresses. 3.1 Soft and hard outer retail packaging or storage
container, or both, of the product shall, on the principal display
1.2 This safety specification covers all size inflatable air
panel, include all of the cautionary information in accordance
mattresses—including but not limited to full, queen, king, and
with 5.2. Each mattress shall have a permanent label or
twin sizes.
sewed-on tag located in a conspicuous location stating all of
1.3 This safety specification does not cover inflatable air
the cautionary information in accordance with 5.2.
mattresses designed specifically for use in Durable Infant
3.2 On product labels with cautionary information shall be
Products.
in contrasting color(s) to the background, permanent, and
1.4 This safety specification is intended to reduce entrap-
conspicuous.
ment hazards to children and risk of suffocation to infants up to
3.3 OnproductlabelsshalluseANSIZ535.4asaguidewith
and including age 15 months.
respect to legibility, type of lettering, color, and symbol. A
1.5 This safety specification includes inflatable air mat-
sample label is shown in Fig. 1.
tresses intended for recreational, camping, and other indoor
3.4 The cautionary information may also be enhanced by
and outdoor uses.
different text or graphics.
1.6 This standard does not purport to address all of the
safety concerns, if any, associated with its use. It is the 4. Safety Instructions
responsibility of the user of this standard to establish appro-
4.1 ANSI Z535.6 shall be used as a guide with respect to the
priate safety and health practices and determine the applica-
format and location of this information.
bility of regulatory limitations prior to use.
4.2 Instruction manuals provided with each inflatable air
mattress shall include all of the following cautionary informa-
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This specification is under the jurisdiction of ASTM Committee F15 on
tion:
Consumer Products and is the direct responsibility of Subcommittee F15.63 on
Inflatable Air Mattresses.
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Current edition approved March 1, 2014. Published March 2014. DOI: 10.1520/ Available from American National Standards Institute (ANSI), 25 W. 43rd St.,
F2755-14. 4th Floor, New York, NY 10036, http://www.ansi.org.
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F2755−14
FIG. 1Packaging and Mattress Label (1 in. = 2.54 cm)
4.2.1 Infants have suffocated on inflatable mattresses. Never 5.2 In warning statements, the safety alert symbol “"” and
place infant aged birth to 15 months to sleep on this inflatable the word “ WARNING ” shall not be less than 0.24 in. (6 mm)
air mattress/air bed. Infants can suffocate on an underinflated high.The remainder of the text shall be characters whose upper
or deflated mattress, on bedding, by co-sleeping with another case shall be at least 0.12 in. (3 mm) high.
person, and by entrapment between the mattress and bed frame
5.2.1 “"” WARNING: Risk of Suffocation.
or between the mattress and a vertical surface.
5.3 The warning statements shall clearly convey the follow-
4.2.2 Children can be entrapped between the inflatable
ing:
mattress and an adjacent vertical surface. Provide at least a
5.3.1 Infants have suffocated on inflatable mattresses.
shoulder width space between th
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